John,
Win2003 had software raid. Does ghost see this?
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Herron via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> Sent: 21 December 2022 20:27
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> Cc: John Herron <baryth...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Win2K+3 on a Dell Poweredge 2600
>
> I'm not sure but Ghost will at least tell you what it sees. Then you can
> choose to
> back it up. If you can tell it's the right size of the partition you expect
> then you
> should be good to go. You'd just need the raid partition or a regular drive
> of that
> size to restore it.
>
> The catch will be wether Ghost recognizes the raid card.
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 7:34 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> > So Chris, your subject should be OT: Win2K+3 on a Dell Poweredge 2600
> > because this is not on topic for this list. After all of our comments
> > about topic/off topic hopefully you understand what we're talking about.
> > If it's newer than 1990 then your post could very well be off topic
> > (OT) unless there is something novel about the item that makes it
> > unique and worth pushing into newer time periods.
> >
> > To answer your question - read up about this Dell 2600's and the RAID
> > array types available. There will have been a driver/setup CD that
> > came with the system that allows the set up of the drives and RAID
> > prior to installation of the operating system. RAID comes first, then
> > the OS is installed on top of it as if the multiple drives were one
> > logical hard drive. The original OS would have been something older
> > than Win 2003. It is a good thing to have RAID if it works for
> > redundancy purposes. You can't remove the RAID configuration stick
> > the OS on one drive without the setup disk. That's not the mentality
> > you're looking for here. I have one of these in my basement. It came with
> RedHat 6.2 I believe.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:12 AM Chris via cctalk
> > <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > This beast was given to me by a neighbor. Dual socket 604. Windows
> > > 2003
> > in
> > > some RAID configuration. I understand (or used to understand) RAID
> > > levels somewhat. But iinm he tells me the OS is "split" over 6 scsi
> > > drives. Not getting this, but I don't need all the
> > > redundancy/striping. I want it all on 1 drive. What to use to image what
> comstitutes 1 volume I guess.
> > Norton
> > > Ghost? I have an extra scsi drive, I can always restore the image to
> > > the
> > 1
> > > drive (yes?), before or without alterimg the currently embedded stack.
> > >
> > > This thing is heavy. I secured a copy of the Corel Linux Starter Kit
> > > and want to load it into the Poweredge. For chips and pringles. I
> > > have other pre uefi boxes around but this is lying dormant. And 6
> > > drives for my purposes is stupid. And heavy.
> > >
> >
